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| Course: | MATH 155/section 1: Elementary Calculus |
| Time/Place: | MW 1:00pm–2:15pm, MP 103 |
| Instructor: | Dr. Rouben Rostamian |
| Office: | MP 402 |
| Phone: | 410–455–2458 |
| Email: | rostamian@umbc.edu |
| Office hours: | MW 2:30–3:30 and by appointment |
Applied Calculus by Stefan Waner and Steven Costenoble. We will cover most of the material in chapters 1 through 6.
A Student's Solutions Manual is available for this textbook. I recommend very strongly against its use. Studying with the help of a solutions manual makes about as much sense as training for a 100-yard dash on a motorcycle! Do yourself a favor and stay away from it.
On the other hand, I do recommend studying with a buddy or in a group. The give-and-take that takes place in such settings goes a long way to pinpoint shortcomings and areas that may need improvement.
A thorough grounding in high school algebra, a working knowledge of the Cartesian coordinates, and a dash of interest in mathematical ideas and applications.
In this course you will be introduced to elementary ideas and techniques of calculus. The highlights are the concepts of differentiation and integration (also known and derivatives and integrals). Along the way, we will learn about the logarithmic and exponential functions and their properties. Applications to quantitative analysis of business and economics scenarios will motivate most of the development.
I will put homework assignments on this web page soon after each class. I will not collect homework but I expect that you do your best to solve them all. There will be a ten-minute quiz at the beginning of the class every Wednesday except for the first day of classes and those days when we have exams. Quiz questions will be slight variations of some of the homework problems assigned on the Monday and Wednesday of the previous week. I will have the quizzes graded and will return them to you on the following Wednesday.
There won't be make-up quizzes; please don't ask for exceptions. However the two lowest quiz grades will be dropped to accommodate unanticipated events.
Exams 1 and 2 will cover approximately the first third and second third of the course; they will be given in the regularly scheduled class times.
The Final Exam will be comprehensive—it will cover the entire course—however it will put much greater emphasis on the material covered in the later parts of the course.
The Final Exam is on Thursday Dec 17, 3:30pm–5:30pm, in LH 4
| Quizzes: | 20% |
| Exam 1: | 25% |
| Exam 2: | 25% |
| Final Exam: | 30% |
Your course grade, out of a maximum of 100, will be calculated according to the weights attached to various components as shown in the adjacent table. Letter grades will be determined according to:
if { grade ≥ 85: A}
else if { grade ≥ 75: B}
else if { grade ≥ 65: C}
else if { grade ≥ 55: D}
else F
I will make and grade the exams in a fair and reasonable way, but sorry, no “curving” in this section.
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The Final Exam is on
Thursday Dec 17, 3:30pm–5:30pm, in LH 4
By enrolling in this course, each student assumes the responsibilities of an active participant in UMBC's scholarly community in which everyone's academic work and behavior are held to the highest standards of honesty. Cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, and helping others to commit these acts are all forms of academic dishonesty, and they are wrong. Academic misconduct could result in disciplinary action that may include, but is not limited to, suspension or dismissal.
For detailed policies on academic integrity consult:
| Author: Rouben Rostamian |
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